Tuesday 10th May 2011

After breakfast we left our hostfamilies, the bus picked us up and we had our last day at school. We enjoyed the flight very much. We waited for our luggage a long time, then we drove back to Graz by bus.

It was a lot of fun in Malta. All of us enjoyed the trip :)

Sunday 08.05.2011

On our 6th day on malta we finally got a little bit more time for sleeping. At 10 o'clock we went to the nearest harbour to start our tour to Comino, by speed boat. It was awesome. It took us about 30 minutes to reach Comino (by the way, we had the fastest boat).

Well the trip was a little bit windy...

Well.
As we finally arrived we had 3 hours spare time... Without anything to do we actually were just chilling at the beautifull "Blue Lagoon".

The water was extremly cold, but still some of us managed to go swimming or ....

After our neverlasting stay at the beautifull island Comino we went back, again by speed boat. Then we went back to our host families and some others visited another beach. Now "we" are enjoying our spare time.

Day of Arrival

After going to Vienna by Bus, we flew to Malta with a strange cheap airline called "Malta Airlines". Mag. Liebminger did not feel very well. A bus picked us up at the airport and brought us to our host-families, where most of us stayed to go to sleep.

Thursday (6/5/2011)

On Thursday we had to go to school until 13.00 o'clock, after that we went to Valletta. It's the capital city of Malta. Our guide showed us some very nice places.

In the evening we went to a bowling center where we spent a good time.

Friday (6/5/2011)

Allright, Today Mdina was on our Programm. But before, let's go back to the morning.
We got up at about 8 o'clock in the morning and had breakfast with our hostfamily afterwards. Once we were finished, we got ready to go to School, meaning we ran up to our room in a rush, took our stuff and got out of the house to the bus' pickup point.
We had 1 1/2 hours of lessons, which were actually kind of amusing and teaching (in my opinion, our teacher's great!). Allright, then me and some of the other guys went to grab some lunch at Burger King - and after that, my personal problems started, because my Stomach made some trouble. It even got so bad that I wasn't able to follow to Mdina. Dammnit!
But to be honest, I'm not sure if I really missed that much, especially since what of my colleauges told me - for example the "famous" cake wasn't that good at all, just normal chocolate cake.
Well, we're staying four more days and Malta and I'm more or less sure it will be a really good time.

Saturday (07/05/2011)

Today we stood up at 8 am in the morning and walked to the pickup point after having a breakfast at our host families.
When we finished the bus problem, some of our class mates wanted to take the bus of swiss students, we got to the ferry wich took us to Gozo where we spent the forenoon with sightseeing, at the citadel, wich was nearly completely destroyed in an earthquake in the 17th century, the calypso cave and the coast, where most of us booked a boat to view the caves and cliffs. Then we got to the beach and swam in the sea, wich wasn`t really warm, but the marvelous beach was full of red sand, wich got also stuck on our skin and clothes.
After a little delay we could get started back to the ferry, which took us back to Malta and our Bus again. Then we had dinner at our host families and are free to spend our evening in Malta (St. Julians).

Thursday, 5th May 2011 Valetta Tour

The third day on the Maltese Archipelago.After the first 2 days, there sure were only a fewpeople which hadn't been excited for the following day to arrive.

As usual, we enjoyed study periods between 9:30hrs to 13:30hrs. After the lessons we prepared ourselves for our trip to Valletta, the capital of Malta. We first met our new guide in the bus on our way to Valetta. She did a fantastic job in introducing us to the history and present of the city.

The name of Valetta derives from its founder, Jean Parisot de la Vallette in 1566, after the Malta siege in 1565. The ottoman empire besieged the island which was defended by the Knights Hospitaller, a christian military order.

They decided to built a massively fortified city as a stronghold against future attacks, thus the city of Valletta was born. We visited a couple of known places in Valletta, like the Auberge de Castille (residence of Malta's prime minister) as well as the Upper Barrakka Gardens.

We also had the opportunity to see a audiovisual documentary in a dedicated cinema in the city, which provided us with more detailed information.

Afterwards, later in the evening bowling had been on our schedule.

With several groups of each 6 players, everyone tried their best! Elisabeth Liebminger, one of our group leaders seemed to have an advantage throughout the games. Her secret was soon revealed, she had been training with her Wii at home.

A promising day did not fail to deliver, and we are looking forward to seeing for the things to come.

First day in Malta

Today we spent our first day here in Malta. We had outstanding weather, although in the morning it was quite windy and cold.
After the breakfast the bus picked us up and we had our first day at ESE where we were divided in two groups. After school we had a little orientation walk where we got to know the city.
Then we had some spare time where we could go shopping but we also had a task from our teachers. We had to interview inhabitants about their life in Malta and these interviews had to be presented in the evening.

This is the outstanding view to St. Georges Bay

After our presentations ESE organized a Party for us at a club called Havanna.

Here you can see our teachers enjoying the party.

It was a lot of fun and we hope this fun continues during our stay here in Malta.

First day

First day in Malta

Our host family welcomed us yesterday and gave us an introduction of the house.
We slept well and had our first breakfast in Malta.
On our first day at the school we had lots of fun.
In the afternoon we went to a shopping mall in paceville and got a free coke from our ESE guide at the hard rock cafe and finished our task to interview people on the streets about different topics wich we had to present in the evening.
The dinner with the host family was delicious.
Later that night we went to our welcome party in the havana club.

End of day two.

Blog 3rd May 2011 Part II

Sitting in the plane, waiting for the take off *excited*

When we arrived on Malta Airport the ESE staff brought us to our host families, who welcomed us very nicely and they introduced us to the house. Later that night our two other roomates from Switzerland came home and we had a little talk. Then we all went to sleep. It was an exhausting day for all of us...

Blog 3rd May 2011 Part I

On the bus to Vienna International Airport. Ready for Malta.

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